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Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation

Grant Opportunities in the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education

Workshop for New Physics and Astronomy FacultyJune 28, 2018

Steve TurleyCorby HovisProgram Officers

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)


Outline

• About NSF • Division of Undergraduate Education Programs • Questions and Answers


NSF’s Mission:“…to promote the progress of science;

to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense..."

NSF Support:• Is a primary driver of the U.S. economy.• Enhances the nation's security. • Advances knowledge to sustain global leadership.


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NSF by the numbersOther than the FY 2016 figure, numbers shown are based on FY 2014 activities.

billion FY 2016 estimation

funds research, education and related activities

48,100proposals

11,900awards funded

1,883NSF-funded Institutions

362,000NSF-supported

researchers

214 Nobel Prize winners

All S&E disciplines funded

Funds research

into STEM education

$7.5

94%


EHR MPS


Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Goals

Prepare the next generation of STEM professionals and attract/retain more Americans to STEM careers

Develop a robust research community that can conduct rigorous research and evaluation to support excellence in STEM education

Increase the technological, scientific and quantitative literacy of all Americans

Broaden participation and close achievement gaps in all STEM fields.

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation EHR’s Organizational

Structure

Office of the Assistant Director

Division of Human Resource

Development (HRD)

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

Division of Graduate Education (DGE)

Division of Research on Learning in

Formal and Informal Settings (DRL)


DUE’s Mission:To promote excellence in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all students.

Potentially Tra ormative Education R&D


IUSE: EHRIUSE: HSIImproving

Undergraduate STEM Education

S-STEMNSF

Scholarships in STEM

ATEAdvanced

Technological Education

NoyceRobert Noyce

Teacher Scholarships

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)


Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)• ATE (NSF 17-568) Focuses on the education of technicians to meet

workforce demands in existing and emerging advanced technological fields.

• IUSE (next slide)• Noyce (NSF 17-541) Encourages talented STEM majors and STEM

professionals to become K-12 STEM teachers.• S-STEM (NSF 17-527) Supports institutional scholarship programs for full-time,

academically-talented STEM students with demonstrated financial need.


IUSE: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education

• IUSE: EHR (NSF 17-590) Works to improve the effectiveness of

undergraduate STEM education, educate students to become leaders and innovators in STEM, and to provide a foundation in scientific literacy for all students.

• IUSE: HSI (NSF 18-524)Similar to IUSE: EHR, but targeted to Hispanic-

Serving Institutions.


Cross-Directorate STEM Education Programs• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU: EHR; NSF 13-542)• Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER: EHR; NSF

17-537)• EHR Core Research (ECR; NSF 15-509) • Research Coordination Networks for Undergraduate Biology

Education (RCN:UBE; NSF 18-510)• IUSE: HSI – Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (NSF 18-524)


ATEAdvanced Technological Education

SOLICITATION: NSF 17-568


STEM

ATE Program Overview1) ATE Focuses on the education of technicians to meet workforce

demands in existing and emerging advanced technological fields.2) Colleges that award two-year degrees and their faculty must play

leadership role on all projects. 3) Requires partnerships between two-year colleges and business

and industry, along with secondary schools, four-year colleges and universities, and government, as appropriate.

4) Must respond to the hiring needs of for highly-skills technical workforce in the service area of the proposing institution(s).

5) Must address sustainability.6) Read the program solicitation for more detailed information.

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S-STEMNSF Scholarships in STEM



• Curriculum• Development

• Professional• Workforce

• Cohorts• Mentoring, etc.

Curricular & Co-Curricular Activities

Curricular & Co-Curricular Activities

• Models• Effective

practices• Strategies

Study & Understand

Study & Understand • Recruitment

• Retention• Student success• Academic/career

pathways• Student transfer• Degree attainment

IncreaseIncrease

Supports institutional scholarship programs for full-time, academically-talented STEM students with demonstrated financial need.

NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Program

• Scholarship Amount: Up to $10,000 per student per year (depending on financial need)• 60% of Budget to Scholarships – 40% to Student Support, Admin., Research, Evaluation

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation S-STEM Program

Three Program Tracks

Track 1: Institutional Capacity Building

Track 2: Design and Development: Single Institution

Up to $650KUp to 5 yrs

For institutions without prior funding from S-STEM or STEP programs

Tracks 2 & 3 seek to leverage S-STEM funds with institutional efforts and infrastructure to increase and understand impacts

Up to $1MUp to 5 yrs


Track 3: Design and Development: Multi-Institution Consortia

Deadline (All Strands and Types):28 March 2018

Last Wednesday in March, Annually Thereafter

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation Management Team

Project teams composed of: 1) Faculty member currently teaching in one of the

S-STEM disciplines STEM disciplinary expertise

2) STEM Administrator Communicate across functional units of institution

3) A researcher with experience in institutional, educational, discipline-based educational, or social science investigation at the institution or from another institution or research organization Education, DBER, social science, change expertise


IUSE: EHRImproving Undergraduate STEM Education



Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR)Competitive proposals should build on available evidence and theory, generate evidence, and build knowledge.

Improve STEM Learning & Learning Environments:

Build the Professional STEM Workforce for

Tomorrow:

Broaden Participation & Institutional Capacity for

STEM Learning:• Innovative curricula• Improved retention• Better teaching/learning

environments• Improved adoption of

best practices• Better mathematical and

computation skills• Improved undergraduate

mentoring• Technology enhancements

Improve the preparation of undergraduate students so they can succeed as productive members of the future STEM workforce, regardless of career path, and be engaged as members of a STEM-literate society

Increase the number and diversity of undergraduate students recruited and retained in STEM education and career pathways through improving the evidence base for successful strategies to broaden participation and implementation of the results of this research

Program Goals

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation IUSE: EHR Program

Engaged Student Learning Institutional and CommunityTransformation

Two Program Tracks

Exploration& Design

(smaller scale)

Development& Implementation

(larger scale)

Two Approaches Two Approaches

Up to $300KUp to 3 yrs

Level I:Up to $600K, Up to 3 yrsLevel II:$600K to $2M, Up to 5 yrs

Focus on designing, developing, and implementing research on STEM learning models, approaches, and tools

Focus on increasing the propagation of highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning

Exploration& Design

(smaller scale)

Development& Implementation

(larger scale)Up to $300KUp to 3 yrs


Deadlines:Exploration and Design: No DeadlinesDevelopment and Implementation:

December 11, 2018


Common Guidelines• The publication Common Guidelines for

Education Research and Development offers guidance on building the evidence base in STEM learning. Research and development efforts that increase understanding of effective undergraduate STEM teaching and learning provide the foundation for building the STEM workforce of tomorrow and improving scientific literacy.


NoyceRobert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program


Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)National Science Foundation Noyce Teacher Scholarships

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GOAL: to encourage talented STEM majors and STEM professionals to become K-12 STEM teachers

Scholarship, stipend, and fellowship recipients must teach in a high-need school district for a specified number of years

Track 1 (S&S) Scholarships & Stipends

Undergraduate STEM majors and/or STEM career changers

Track 2 (TF) NSF Teaching Fellowships STEM career changers

Track 3 (MTF) NSF Master Teaching Fellowships

Exemplary, experienced STEM teachers

Track 4 (Noyce Research) Research on the Preparation, Recruitment, and Retention of K-12 STEM Teachers

Deadline (All Tracks):Last Tuesday in August, Annually Thereafter


REUResearch Experiences for Undergraduates



REU Foci & FundingThe Research Experiences for Undergraduates program supports active research participation by undergraduate students and involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for REU. There are two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects

that engage a number of students in research. (2) REU Supplements may be included as a component of proposals for new or

renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements or may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects.

BUDGET• For summer REU projects, the total budget request--including all direct costs and

indirect costs--is generally expected not to exceed $1,200 per student per week.• The budget request for an academic-year REU project should be comparable on a

pro rata basis.• Projects that involve exceptional circumstances may exceed this limit.

Deadline:Fourth Wednesday in August, Annually Thereafter.


Solid REU Site Proposals

• Undergraduates in focused research projects• Target under-represented groups• Predominantly research, not instruction• Focus on students from other institutions• Target primarily students who wouldn’t

otherwise have this experience• Make your experience unique


Other Points to Consider

• Contact the Program Officer for your targeted discipline– Variations in expectations– Agreements within the community

• Talk to others with successful programs– Example: can’t use NSF funds to pay for social

activities, but you’ll need to find a way to do them anyway


CAREERFaculty Early Career Development Program



CAREER Foci & FundingThe Faculty Early Career Development Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

The minimum CAREER award size is $400,000 for a five-year period for EHR.

A list of CAREER Division/Directorate Contacts can be found on the CAREER web page at http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/contacts.jsp.

Deadline (EHR):Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter


ECREHR Core Research



ECR FociThe EHR Core Research program of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. EHR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas:

• STEM learning, STEM learning environments, • STEM workforce development, and • broadening participation in STEM.

The ECR program is distinguished by its emphasis on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to

• understand, • build theory to explain, and • suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in

STEM interest, education, learning, and participation.The ECR program will fund fundamental research on: human learning in STEM; learning in STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and research on broadening participation in STEM.


ECR Funding LevelsFunding should align with the maturity of the proposed work, the size and scope of the empirical effort, as well as the capacity of the interdisciplinary team to conduct the proposed research:.

Level I proposals: • Maximum award size: $500,000• Maximum duration: 3 years

Level II proposals: • Maximum award size: $1,500,000• Maximum duration: 3 years

Level III proposals: • Maximum award size: $2,500,000• Maximum duration: 5 years Deadline (All Levels):

Second Thursday in September, Annually.


• Addresses requirements set by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 and the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, recognizing the need to build capacity at HSIs and increase graduation rates for students pursuing associates’ and bachelors’ degrees in STEM at HSIs.

• Focuses on undergraduate STEM education at HSIs– https://nsf.gov/ehr/HSIProgramPlan.jsp

IUSE: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program(HSI Program, 18-524)


Eligible Institutions

• Institutions must be accredited and offer undergraduate educational programs in STEM, and satisfy the HSI definition as specified in section 502 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a), i.e.,

a) be an eligible institution; and b) have a full-time equivalent enrollment of undergraduates

that is at least 25% Hispanic.

• Certification of eligibility is required with submission of a proposal to the HSI Program.

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HSI Program

18-524

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• $500K to $1.5M up to 5 years• Critical Transitions• Innovative Cross-Sector

Partnerships• Research on Broadening

Participation in STEM

Track 1: Building Capacity

• Up to $250K for up to 3 years

Track 2: New to

NSF

• Up to $3M for up to five years

Resource Hub

Deadline (All Tracks):March 6, 2018


Ten Big IdeasResearch• NSF INCLUDES• Harnessing data revolution• Future of work at the

human/technology frontier• Rules of life• Next quantum revolution• Navigating the New Arctic• Multi-messenger

astrophysics

Process• Convergence research• Midscale research

infrastructure• NSF 2026


Helpful Links

• Big Ideas: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/

• Reviewer Survey (volunteer as reviewer): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NSF_DUE_Reviewer_Info


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